Safina Party presidential candidate Jimi Wanjigi’s lawyers have written to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission demanding a date to cross-examine the body's Chairperson Wafula Chebukati.
Wanjigi wants his lawyers to put Chebukati in the dock and question his move to remove his name from the presidential candidates' list.
"We refer to the above matter which is coming up for hearing on 16th June, 2022. We wish to cross-examine the chairman, Wafula Chebukati, on the said date for hearing. Please make arrangements for his attendance and appearance for purposes of cross-examination," read the document.
IEBC responded to the document noting it does not have a framework for cross-examination.
Wanjigi accused Chebukati of disadvantaging him and his campaign team after he failed to clear him to run for president in the August elections.
Wanjigi, said the manner in which he was removed from the presidential candidate's list is suspicious.
He argued that Walter Mong'are had been cleared with similar academic qualifications as his.
Mong'are's clearance was, however, revoked.
Chebukati said he was forced to revoke the certificate after "new information emerged".
Wanjigi's running mate lawyer Willis Otieno says the cross-examination would be done in line with Rule 17 of the Elections Dispute Resolutions Rules.
"We need to understand what games the Chebukati is playing and that is why we demand a cross-examination. There is a clear guideline on the admission of persons with academic transcripts as adjudicated by the courts in 2013 in the Joho case in which the IEBC was an interested party, yet they want to depart from their own law?"Otieno posed.
